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Have you just chosen a really bad geographic location for your office, or do you magnetically attract these sort of people. Surely this isn't the average for doctors, or at least I hope not as I'm training to become one (and interested in Psych, so pretty likely to get all of these).

My in-laws immigrated to the United States from Germany. Several years ago my husband's uncle was visiting from Germany and we decided to take him on a tour of our hometown brewery because we knew of his fondness for beer, and our hometown has a damn good brewery. The tour was just about to start, and the tour guide said 'Is anyone here today from out of town?'. My husband's uncle, upon hearing that question, raised his hand and said, in perfect English, 'I am from Germany and I am here visiting my family.'. The tour guide then looked at my husband and me and asked 'Does he speak English?'.

I live in the German-speaking area of northern Italy. I speak fluent German but with an accent as I was over 30 when I learnt to speak it. I frequently meet people who insist on speaking incorrect German to me - all verbs in the infinitive for example, as if that makes it easier for me to understand. Then they try to speak English to me. I don't mind if their English is better than my German but it very rarely is.

I have been thinking about your calling your 0ffice partner "Dr Pissy" for days. So FUNNY!

And in your profile, "The names, minor details, and dates of occurrence have been changed to protect the irritating." - Hilarious. :)

Blogrolling you now. :)

Oh ..I really enjoyed Grand Rounds 7, but was disappointed I couldn't access Crayzee 1,2,3,and 4 submitted by your secretary. I worked in emergency registration for 20 yrs and so would've appreciated their input for sure.

I also think it's great that you appreciate your secretaries so much. :)

My family has an in joke about this exact same thing happening to my grandma and my mom. We are immigrants from Russia but have lived here a long time, so my mom has great English and my grandma's is great considering she moved here when she was 60 years old. My grandma was opening up a bank account and my parents were with her. Apparently, the teller would say something to my grandma, then my mom would 'translate' what he said, but still in English! My dad still cracks up when he tells the story. My mom maintains that it makes sense since she knows how to explain something in English to my grandma but in different words. Why she just didn't say it in Russian I have no idea.

The comedian Emil Cohen told a story about how an older Jewish man was called into court to testify in a case. The judge took one look at the fellow with the long beard, sidelocks etc. and immediately sent for the Yiddish interpreter. He asked the interpreter to ask the old man his age. Interpreter says in Yiddish "Der Judge vil vissen, vie alt zeit dir?" Man replies, with beautiful Oxford accent, "Tell the judge I am sixty-two years old." Interpreter tuns to the judge and says "Your Honor, ער האט געזאגט ער איז צוויי און זעכציק יאר אַלט..." (Er hat gezogt er is tzvai und zechtzik yor alt)

"Oh, you are that ESL kid, HELL-O, MY NAME IS MRS. PEACHFUZZFACE, DO YOU UN-DER-S-TAN-D WHAT I AM SA-YING TO YOU?

The over the top enunciating never stopped the entire school year. She was the only teacher that never got it. Everyone else after speaking for me for few minutes reverted back to normal speech... but not Mrs. Peachfuzzface, no. (I also wanted to shave the peach fuzz off her face. I was a mean child)

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